The Academic Village: Housing Students, Faculty, and Staff in Urban Districts

The demand for campus housing remains urgent across the country, and that demand has extended beyond undergraduate and advanced degree student groups to include the need for faculty, staff, and in some regions community college housing. Each of these housing types have specific opportunities and constraints relative to the financial delivery of the project, the types of amenity and support spaces in the building, and the unit layouts.

The opportunity exists within urban campuses to provide the full spectrum of these housing types by leveraging strategic partnerships to share real estate in centralized academic districts that enrich and stimulate the cities in which they reside. The centralized location of these campuses in cities allows several institutions at once to develop and share housing that benefits from ideal proximity to transit, commercial and business districts, and amenity / support spaces in the civic context. The value proposition for shared housing on these urban campuses is truly realized when amenity and support spaces are appropriate and abundant based on tenant types, and rents are made affordable through strategic partnerships to finance these projects.

Utilizing specific case studies from Bay Area campuses, this session will explore how graduate, faculty, workforce, and community college housing can be considered in urban districts. The session will highlight the specific differences between these housing types as it relates to design considerations, planning, and financing along with potential approaches to deliver the full range of types in combination and in partnership with other institutions across a series of shared buildings.

Speakers:
-Rhiannon Bailard, Chief Operating Officer, UC Law
-Anders Carpenter, Associate Principal, Perkins&Will
-Chris Ferguson, Exec. Vice Chancellor of Finance and Strategic Initiatives, California Community Colleges
-Hamid Ghaemmaghami, Executive Director of Real Estate Development, San Francisco State University
-Ronnie Slimp, Director of Affordable Student Housing, California Community Colleges